Stonehenge Solved Its Three Observatories, Who built them, How and Why

Stonehenge (1836)
by John Constable
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About this site

Many archaeological facts have hitherto been overlooked, and their discovery enables several new lines of enquiry. With these, in seeking to discover the answer to the puzzle of Stonehenge, I like to think I have solved it.

This Web site presents my research and conclusions. Alternatively, you may wish to download or buy the book of the web site (see box opposite right).

Please select sections from my paper from the menu on the right, or from the summary below.

Contents

• Preface

1. Introduction, and a poem by Lisa Saunders
2. Setting the Scene: Straight Ways
3. Worked to Exhaustion: the Early Henge
4. The Seven Veils of the Stone Henge
5. The Joint: Open Sesame!
6. How the Stone henge Worked
7. Observation Windows in the Sky
8. Strange Paths of the Moon
9. The Earth’s Axis of Spin Leaves the North Pole!
10. The Climate and the Countryside
11. Egyptian Designers and Construction Managers
12. A Voyage of Reconnaissance
13. Conceiving the Stone Henge
14. The First Construction Tour, the Model team: a snag!
15. The Second Construction Tour, the Learner team: off the rails!
16. The Third Construction Tour, the Innovatory team: Out of the Frying Pan into the Fire!
17. The Fourth and Last Construction Tour, the Harassed team: In the Fire!
18. A Tatty Outcome: the Harassed team presiding
19. Barrow: a Loaded Term
20. Keeping on the Straight and Narrow
21. The Core of the Conundrum
22. Supportive Evidence: Climate Change!
23. What on Earth’s Happening? The Final Henge and a Tremor
24. Conclusions
• The nature of Stonehenge and its context
• The astronomical scenario
• Movement of Earth’s core and axis of spin
• Climate change: deluges, floods, high winds and temperatures, tall trees
• Initial stimulation of mankind’s interest
• Mankind’s response
• The first installation, or Early Henge
• The second installation, or Stone Henge
• The third installation, or Final Henge
• Straight Ways
• Levels of confidence, remaining ‘unknowns’, and challenges

• Epilogue (Part I) (Part II)
• Notes and References
• Figures
• Appreciation
  
  
• Links and resources